166 RUBIACEAE. (Kadua. 
15. K. Cookiana, neg & Schl., 1. c. p. 158. — A small suberect glabrous 
undershrub, 1/2—1'/2 ft. high, branching from a woody base, the virgate 
reddish branches 2- ee or 4- ‘Sati distantly and evenly foliose to the 
de as upper ae gradually s er. Leaves linear-lanceolate, the 
2—6' X 1-6", acute at nat ends, rather coriaceous, pale an 
sets Lee, with indistinct nerves, gradually narrowing into the 
clasping petioles. Stipules triangular acute or annular with a subulate 
mucro. Inflor. terminal: in small plants a simple or ternate cyme with 
median pedicels of 1'/2—3"', the lateral ones of 3—6", or in larger plants 
also assurgent ces from the axils of the one or two upper leaf-pairs; 
the cyme-branches sometimes secundiflorous. Bade ee linear to filiform. 
Calycine aes ‘sult, longer than their tubes, 1!/2—3". Corolla white, 
the tube 4—6”, the lobes with inflected tips. ithe ,oblong, subsessile 
at the middle of the tube. Style included, hairy below, bifid to the middle 
with linear or spathulate lobes. Capsule subglobose i i 
meter, 2-, rarely 3-celled, the conical exserted vertex almost as high as 
the siinadite portion. Seeds triquetrous or compressed-angular, not mar- 
gined, — ers LG: 
Probably all Islands, collected in Kealakea kua, red bac Halawa and Kalawau, 
Motdkats Ke the foot of ‘the pali of Koolau, Oahu! Nat. e: «Awiwi> or «Uiwi» in 
Molokai. The subherbaceons habit and narrow leaves cast to the ane the appea- 
rance of a Ko matte. 
£ var. elatior. — Leaves larger, 6— 8‘ < 6—8”. Corolla citron- colored, 
with a tube of 8”, the lobes 2—3“, mica Style 1/2 as long as the tube, 
with linear er — Mann, Enum. — Wawra, 1. c. p. 263. 
auai, Hanal 
16. K. litto oahe sp. n. — Low, subherbaceous, erect, cones 1/2 to 
1 ft. high, single-stemmed or bran nching from the ground, the stem or 
branches quadrangular, densely foliose near the ale pease in an 
acre na or two-leaved scape. Leaves broadly ovate or obovate, 
2—4‘ X 1—2‘, all sessile and clasping, shortly acuminate or apiculate, 
fleshy, smooth underneath, with only the lowest nerves prominent. Floral 
leaves ovate, the lowest 4’ long. Stipules annular, mucronate. Flowers 
in a terminal cluster which consists of 1—3 pairs of closely approximate 
subsessile cymes, often with an additional pair of shortly pedunculate 
clusters with reduced leaves from the next lower distant node, the cymes 
cantar er secund, with thick angular pedicels of 1“ or less, the 
ranches lengthening with fruit to about 1’. Bractlets ie 
i lla 
white, short and broad. Anthers inserted near the base of the tube(?) 
Style 1/2 the length of the tube(?) shortl 'y 3—4-fid with clavate or spathulate 
ee thick and hairy at the habe. Capsule 3—4-celled, subglobose, 
in diam., with rather flat vertex. Seeds small angular. — Aborted 
ovaries very scarce. 
